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More organizing with Sarah Hodgkinson!

Summer vacation is here and I have been focussing on getting my craft room organized. My first task was to tackle the piles of magazines which have been gradually taking over. Today’s tip is all about how to store your crafting magazines (Scrapbook & Cards Today, of course!) in an organized yet attractive way.


Step One:
Locate your good ol’ Crop-a-Dile by We R’ Memory Keepers. If you don’t own one, contact your BSF (Best Scrapbooking Friend) as they will likely have one that you could borrow.  Also, you will need to purchase some binders. With “Back to School” just around the corner the selection is pretty good right now. I looked for binders which had an outer spine sleeve. Using a pen and an open binder as a guide, mark three holes approximately ½” in from the edge of each issue.

Step Two:
Using your Crop-a-Dile (as a regular hole punch just doesn’t have enough gusto), set the larger hole punch grid to 1/2”. It’s a sliding guide which you then tighten into place. Punch the holes and marvel at the strength of the Crop-a-Dile. This tool will also cut through tin!


Step Three:
Take the measurements of the spine sleeves and create tags which indicate the magazine’s title and issue. I like to sort mine by the seasons since that is how Scrapbook & Cards Today is published. That way, when I am looking for a Christmas card idea or Easter project, everything is easy to locate.

Supplies: Core’dinations cardstock, Jillibean Soup patterned paper, Scenic Route grid paper, We R’ Memory Keepers Corner Chomper and Crop-a-Dile and Xyron adhesives, other: various fonts.

We would love to hear how you organize your magazines, so be sure to let us know in the comments below!

~ Sarah Hodgkinson

Where Lynn's gets crafty...and some organization ideas!

Good morning SCT friends!  Are you ready for a great week?  We sure are!  We are often asked about organization ideas so over the next few months we'll be asking our team to share their spaces and some ideas about how they organize.  Today we've got Design Team Member Lynn Ghahary joining us with her space...

"Hi everybody!  Lynn here and today I want to share with you some photos from my craft room.  My craft room is actually the bonus room off of my master bedroom.  Looking into my room from the hallway in my bedroom, you can see a large picture window at the far end.  This window is fantastic as it lets in lots of natural light.  I am a stand up scrapper so I have a large worktable set up right in the middle of the room that allows me to easily walk around to all sides and gather whatever supplies I need from around my room.

I have set up various "stations" or work areas around my room.  To the right of the large window is a desk that houses my sewing machine.  I also keep most of my stamps, mists, etc. in this area as well.  These are where I perform my "sit down" tasks or things that take some time and I would get tired from standing at my work table to perform.  The Making Memories Embellishment Center is perfect for displaying my various mists and paints - the rainbow of colors just makes me so happy!

On the other side of the room is another Making Memories Embellishment Center that is not pictured below, but it houses a lot of my punches.  I also have quite a few other drawers full of punches - I'm addicted to them what can I say!  LOL The long wall of my room houses several stacks of cube organizers I purchased from Michaels.  These cubes hold the majority of my embellishments, patterned papers, and other supplies.  I usually stand at the end of my work table nearest this wall so I can easily turn around and grab whatever items I need while working on a project.

The wall adjacent to the entrance to my room houses my Ikea Expedit.  I store all of my cardstock in display racks in my Expedit along with my idea books, baskets full of Thickers and other supplies, and still MORE patterned paper!  LOL

And finally on the wall adjacent to the other side of the entrance to my room is a large L-shaped desk that houses my computer, printer, and electronic die cut machines.  I also keep some of my recent scrapbook layouts displayed on the wall near my computer.

Thanks so much for "stopping by" my craft space today.  If you have any questions regarding how I organize my supplies please feel free to ask them here in the comments!  Take care!  Lynn :)  

FarmHouse Paper Company giveaway!!!

Happy Friday everyone!!!  We're so glad you're here!  When we saw this brand new company at CHA, we knew we just had to share it with our fabulous SCT readers!  How would you like to be one of the first to have a little FarmHouse Paper Company in your scrap space? 

Just leave a comment below if you would like the opportunity to win a prize package from FarmHouse Paper Company by Thursday, August 2nd at 6:00 p.m!  We would also love it if you could jump on over to their facebook page and send a big SCT thank you!  As a new company I know they would appreciate hearing from you!  (and I told them you guys were awesome!!!)

And now for a winner of the Carta Bella Paris collection from last week....drumroll...

Wow - Paris. Brings back so many memories. I love the city. Would be great to scrap my memories on this beautiful paper.   Posted by: Elaine| July 13, 2012 at 05:35 PM

Congratulations Elaine!  Please send us your name and address to ideas@scrapbookandcards.com and we'll get that right off to you!

Have a wonderful weekend friends.  See you next week!

~  Catherine

 

Some fun things on the web...

Welcome to a "random Thursday" post!  With CHA just last week, there have been some really great ideas on the web so get ready for some tutorials, some enabling and some pretty things  :)

Browsing around some blogs we found some great tutorials to share...

From Studio Calico, this great mini album tutorial from Kinsey Wilson HERE.  (did you also see in our summer issue that Studio Calico has offered SCT readers a discount on their first order?  Just use code SCT20!!!!)

Here is a great floral card tutorial from designer Christine Middlecamp.

Our friend Kelly Purkey has some great news HERE.

 

We just read that our friends at Piggy Tales are back a sweet new collection called Hickory Dickory Dock.  You can see it all HERE!

Designer Vicki Boutin has done a great CHA recap on her blog here too!

And lastly some fun kids crafts with Write, Click, Scrapbook here!

Have you seen anything else on the web lately?  Please share in the comments below!

~ Catherine

Peek-a-boo card tutorial with Becky Fleck!

Good morning, thanks joining me today for this quick and easy how-to! Did you like the peek-a-boo cards we showed you on Monday? Here are step-by-step instructions on how you can create one of your own.

To start out with, you’ll need basic papercrafting tools (paper trimmer, scissors, adhesive, etc.), along with the following supplies:

Cardstock, patterned paper, word stickers, scallop border punch, baby powder, soft brush, adhesive

Trim a piece of cardstock to create a 4.25”x5.5” card base that opens on the right. Trim 1.75” from the right edge; trim that scrap to 1.25”. You should have a card base that looks like this:

Trim a piece of patterned paper 2”x5.5” and scallop both long edges. This piece will be glued to the inside of the card and appear through the gap. Trim a different piece of patterned paper 1”x5.25” and glue it to the center of the 1.25” strip of cardstock that you previously cut off the front of the card.

Glue the scalloped piece to the inside of the card, ½” in from the right edge.

Mat your stamped design onto a 2.25”x5.25” piece of coordinating cardstock.

Glue the matted design to the front, left panel of the card. Position the matted 1.25” strip to the right side of the card and hold it in place with low-tack tape.

Peel off three word stickers and attach them over the gap on the bottom of the card as shown, being careful not to press down on the center of the sticker. Place two additional word stickers towards the top.

Open the card and dust the exposed stickers with baby powder using a soft brush.

Voila, instant pee-a-book card!

Think of all the possibilities just by using stickers and die cuts. For the upcoming holidays, I thought a card like this would be really pretty using snowflakes over the gap, or a bunch of flying bats for Halloween. I would love to see what you create using this technique—please post a link to your creation on the blog! Have a great week, everyone!

~ Becky

Final CHA recap, a new company and winners too!

Good morning everyone!  We have a little bit of a random post today as we have a few more CHA images for you, a great new company to chat about and of course we have some winners from our "friends and fans celebration" giveaway! 

So here are a few more fun pics from CHA...

Bo Bunny Double Dot in a 6 x 6 pad!!!  Cardmakers unite!

Do you watch TLC's Craft Wars?  Here is Cheryl's house that won on the first episode.  Love the ruler shutters and the pencil flower boxes.  (Just know Christy Tomlinson that we LOVED your school bus too!!!!) 

Serious love for this Maya Road fabric tape!!  One little roll *may* have found it's way into my suitcase!

Also in the Maya Road booth was this incredible ferris wheel that was completely decorated with Maya Road twine!  Unbelievable!

I had the opportunity to try out the new Tab punches from We R Memory Keepers and they are awesome!  Absolutely a must!

So we've talked about what CHA is all about from a product perspective but the other great part about CHA is having an opportunity to actually talk face to face with manufacturers about their products, meet with designers to discuss upcoming editorial ideas and also to share some great laughs with our very own design team that we don't get to see too often.  The personal interaction is what truly makes CHA a great place to be.  One other part of CHA we love is the New Exhibitor section as there is always one new company that just stands out and this one, FarmHouse Paper Company was just that.  The owner Howard is by far one of the funniest people we have met in a long time and many will know him from the company The Button Farm.  Introducing FarmHouse Paper Company...

Be sure to click on the link to FarmHouse above to see even more great images from this new company!  We're also pretty sure you'll see more of them in the very near future (pssst...be here Friday!)  ;)

Are you a winner?  Be sure to click HERE to see if you are a winner in our "Celebrating Friends and Fans" giveaway.  I had so much fun snapping the pictures and just loved how many of you followed us each day.  I hope you enjoyed our CHA recap and just know if I could take you all with me...I would!!!  Just be sure to check out your local stores for all the new products that is either hitting shelves now or will be in a few weeks time.  We've got a lot of papercrafting and memory keeping to do friends...and a lot of great products to do it with.  We are also cooking up a little something right now that we can't wait to share soon!

Have a great Tuesday!

~ Catherine